378 SPANISH AMEllICA. 



serve to account for that spirit of hostility 

 which so often started up amongst the pa- 

 triots themselves, and v^hich not unfre- 

 quently injured their cause, and tended 

 to delay its final success. 



The Congress assembled at Bogota in 

 December 1810; but there being a differ- 

 ence of opinion amongst the members, as 

 to whether the deputies, elected by those 

 departments which wished to become se- 

 parate provinces, should be allowed to take 

 their seats, it was at length agreed, chiefly 

 by the persuasion of Don A. Narino, the 

 secretary, to adjourn its sittings. In the 

 mean time, the pretensions of these depart- 

 ments were got rid of : the Congress again 

 assembled, and on the 27th of November 

 1811, a federal compact was concluded 

 between the representatives of the pro- 

 vinces of Pamplona, Tunja, Neyva, Car- 

 thagena, and Antioquia. The province of 



